"I might say, 'Hey, why did you throw me out?' " Florimon said with a smile.

Not only was that the first ejection for a Twins player this year, Florimon said it was his first ejection since he played for Class A Frederick in the Baltimore Orioles chain. That was in either 2009 or 2010, and it also concerned a strike call the shortstop disputed.

"I thought that was a bad pitch, too," Florimon said. "I slammed my bat down on the plate and broke my bat."

An immediate ejection followed from the Carolina League umpire.

This time, Florimon was tossed for telling Marquez in the seventh inning he planned to go into the Twins' clubhouse and check the video of the called third strike. That was Florimon's third strikeout of the night (second called) and gave him 108 strikeouts this season.

Florimon told Marquez this in Spanish and without using profanity, he said, but the umpire later told Twins manager Ron Gardenhire he tossed the shortstop because he was in no mood for such treatment.

"I asked (Marquez) why he threw him out, and he said, 'I don't have to take that. I'm not going to stand for that. I don't deserve that,' " Gardenhire said. "He didn't feel like he needed to listen to that stuff.

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Marquez also gave Gardenhire the first of his five ejections this season: April 28 against Texas on a play involving Oswaldo Arcia at third base.